Max Sheahan

AI consulting. Eugene, Oregon.

Max Sheahan

I build the one thing a person actually needs. Sometimes that is software. Sometimes it is the research behind a decision.

A teacher who built his own AI operating system and can teach you to run yours. Most people start by getting Cowork set up properly.

Private client

The Desk.

ProblemHe was paying for an expensive market terminal and fighting a handful of AI chatbots, and still could not get a clean answer about his own holdings.

ApproachI built one box that reads his actual accounts and holdings, no manual entry.

ResultOne sourced answer back, not five tabs open. The same gap shows up in almost every business: the answer already exists, spread across tools you already pay for.

He liked it. Then he asked for more.

Same client

The guitar room.

ProblemThree tabs open just to practice one song: a chord chart, a tab site, a metronome, and none of them knew what he was working on.

ApproachI built one room instead, tuned to how he actually practices.

ResultChord shapes, picking patterns, a player that transposes on the fly, all in one place.

Same client

The opera library.

ProblemHe wanted to actually learn opera, not just listen to it, and every source he found assumed he already had.

ApproachI built a single-purpose research surface instead of pointing him at another database.

ResultComposers, eras, voice types, libretti, organized for someone starting from zero.

Neither of these existed because the market for each one is a single person. Each took days, not months. That is the part worth stealing: once a build costs days instead of months, most of what your team does by hand turns out to be worth building after all.

Another client did not want a tool at all. He wanted to win an argument.

Private client

The briefing packet.

ProblemA different client was making the case for a major California infrastructure program, and the argument was not ready for a hostile committee.

ApproachI turned a stack of white papers into a sourced, modeled, committee-ready packet. I did not know more about energy than he did. I knew where a skeptic pushes and what a claim needs to survive.

ResultHe read it, cancelled the meeting he had booked, and rebuilt his approach.

Not every build has a client behind it. Sometimes I make one just to show what small and well built feels like.

Built to show

Field Walks.

The ideaMade for the person who would rather learn a neighborhood on foot than scroll a list of places.

ApproachA city map turned into a handful of curated routes, each stop with its own hand-drawn sketch.

ResultNo client asked for this. That is the point: this is what a week of my time produces with no client, no brief, and no budget, so you can price the thing you keep wishing existed.

Start here

Almost everyone starts in the same place.

Cowork is Anthropic's workspace for getting real work done with Claude. Out of the box, it is a blank room. Set up properly, it is the room where your work actually happens.

Setting it up properly means the second brain underneath it: your files, your decisions, your context, structured so Claude can find them. That is not a separate project. It is the same project.

I do the setup with you, not for you. You leave able to run it yourself.

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What the setup includes

What I build

What this looks like.

Different people, problems that look nothing alike. Whatever I build, I teach you to run it. You are not left with a system only I can operate.

Later

What it grows into.

Once the foundation is running, people find the next thing on their own. A form that routes itself, a report that assembles itself, a morning inbox that has already sorted itself. These are real, and they are step three, not step one. I would rather build you the foundation first and let you tell me what you actually need next than sell you an automation you have not felt the need for yet.

About

Who you would be working with.

I booked live music at a speakeasy in Boulder, taught six subjects across K–12 in Kampala, led a district-wide ELA standards rewrite in Eugene, and now build custom AI tools for private clients, small businesses, and schools.

There is a throughline. The same instinct ran a 50-seat music venue, taught six subjects in a Kampala classroom, and now shapes the builds: pay attention to the one person in front of you, then make a hard thing clear to them. Teaching is where that became a profession, and it is why I can build you a system and actually get you running it.

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